The Monuments Men is one that we’ve been looking forward to for quite a while, and I was actually among those very few people who cared at all when it was moved to 2014. Of course, it turns out now that it didn’t really matter, because it wasn’t as good as I expected it to be, but it was still pretty fun, and it was worth seeing the scenes that are really done amazingly well.
George Clooney knows how to put a movie together, and that translates into a film having a bottom threshold, so I don’t think anyone is going to be too disappointed. That said, it should have been better. It should have had a bit more work done on the script in order to sell the characters, and put the progression together, as opposed to be so focused on just getting the story out at all.
George Clooney knows how to put a movie together, and that translates into a film having a bottom threshold, so I don’t think anyone is going to be too disappointed. That said, it should have been better. It should have had a bit more work done on the script in order to sell the characters, and put the progression together, as opposed to be so focused on just getting the story out at all.
- 3/2/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Based on a true story, The Monuments Men tells the tale of seven museum directors and art historians who braved the frontlines of WWII to rescue some of the world’s most valuable artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves.
Dimitri Leonidas plays Sam Epstein, a soldier recruited by Frank Stokes (George Clooney) for his ability to drive and speak German. The character was inspired by real-life Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger, and we were lucky enough to sit down with them ahead of the film’s UK release this week.
In the course of the interview Leonidas talks about the importance of getting the character right and which Clooney film he would liked to have been a part of, whilst Ettlinger tells us some of the differences between his real-life experiences and the cinematic account.
The Monuments Men is out in UK cinemas on February 14. Read our review here.
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Dimitri Leonidas plays Sam Epstein, a soldier recruited by Frank Stokes (George Clooney) for his ability to drive and speak German. The character was inspired by real-life Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger, and we were lucky enough to sit down with them ahead of the film’s UK release this week.
In the course of the interview Leonidas talks about the importance of getting the character right and which Clooney film he would liked to have been a part of, whilst Ettlinger tells us some of the differences between his real-life experiences and the cinematic account.
The Monuments Men is out in UK cinemas on February 14. Read our review here.
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- 2/13/2014
- by Amon Warmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Monuments Men is one of those rare films that is created for the endgame, and it suffers for the apparent road it traveled to get there, and the road audiences are made to travel on the way to that which the creators hoped to deliver. In this case, that means George Clooney, who co-wrote the screenplay and directed the film.
Based on the true events of World War II, and a book by the same name, the story follows the group of artists, art historians, and other scholars who went to Europe near the end of the war to try to save an absolutely unbelievable amount of art from being destroyed outright, or otherwise lost. You might expect this to be a film that plays for quite a bit of comedy off the fact that these are aging men heading into soldier territory, and while we can’t let that go entirely,...
Based on the true events of World War II, and a book by the same name, the story follows the group of artists, art historians, and other scholars who went to Europe near the end of the war to try to save an absolutely unbelievable amount of art from being destroyed outright, or otherwise lost. You might expect this to be a film that plays for quite a bit of comedy off the fact that these are aging men heading into soldier territory, and while we can’t let that go entirely,...
- 2/12/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
I suppose everyone has to have their war movie, and if you’re George Clooney, you can get a hell of a cast for The Monuments Men.
Hitting December 18th, this one is already getting a lot of award buzz, and if Clooney and the rest of the cast aren’t enough, you’ve also got a war movie that’s actually about an artistic cause, and that opens the door for scenes with Bill Murray and John Goodman struggling to get through an obstacle course. That’s just feel good gold.
For some, this is the first film in a while that billed itself as “based on a true story,” that didn’t cause you to roll your eyes, and this one isn’t just about the exploits of various art historians suddenly thrown into war, it’s about the fact that they needed to be in the first place.
Hitting December 18th, this one is already getting a lot of award buzz, and if Clooney and the rest of the cast aren’t enough, you’ve also got a war movie that’s actually about an artistic cause, and that opens the door for scenes with Bill Murray and John Goodman struggling to get through an obstacle course. That’s just feel good gold.
For some, this is the first film in a while that billed itself as “based on a true story,” that didn’t cause you to roll your eyes, and this one isn’t just about the exploits of various art historians suddenly thrown into war, it’s about the fact that they needed to be in the first place.
- 10/12/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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